--- title: did every colony just get handed freedom nice n easy — How empires fell: the map of the 20th… · tree and pragmatics description: did every colony just get handed freedom nice n easy Test 5 · ★ of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [How empires fell: the map of the 20th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century did every colony just get handed freedom nice n easy **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colony · **What happens:** do, hand · **To what, where:** colony, freedom This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t5:1 # text = did every colony just get handed freedom nice n easy 1 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 7 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 n and CCONJ CC Abbr=Yes 10 cc _ _ 10 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | every colony | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Eventuality | | 2 | **hand** | present · passive | every colony *not said here* | freedom | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: freedom=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Yes, and they paid the colonies too ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t5:o1:1 # text = Yes, and they paid the colonies too 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 colonies colony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | past | they | the colonies | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Asset | ### Option 2 {#o2} No, but only in South America ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t5:o2:1 # text = No, but only in South America 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Yes, every empire left politely and said sorry on the way out ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t5:o3:1 # text = Yes, every empire left politely and said sorry on the way out 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 politely politely ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 out out ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | every empire | | | | | politely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past | every empire *not said here* | | | the way | | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} No, some like Algeria, Angola and Mozambique had to fight long wars ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t5:o4:1 # text = No, some like Algeria, Angola and Mozambique had to fight long wars 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Algeria Algeria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Angola Angola PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 Mozambique Mozambique PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | some Algeria and Angola and Mozambique | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive | some Algeria and Angola and Mozambique *not said here* | long wars | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Co-Agent | **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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